I do no own Beyblade, nor its characters. This is purely fiction, so
please don't sue me.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
People, I'm currently posting this chapter up using my friend's computer, because my computer broke down on me. Just to give you a heads up, I'll probably update like... I don't know, 2 weeks to 1 month later under the worst circumstances. But, I'll try to get my computer fixed as soon as possible, so that you won't wait that long. Gomen, thanks for understanding. Arigatou.
Spring Fantasy
"..." = talking '...' = thinking
[Night- Hotel Room]
Ray's golden eyes snapped open when he heard a whimpering sound, he opened his eyes in the darkness, lay quietly, waiting for the next sound. Soon enough, the next sound came, it was more like a moan than a whimper.
It sounds so close to him, he frowned, then suddenly remembered that he's sharing a room with Charlotte. He sat up immediately and turned on the lights.
Besides his bed, there stood Charlotte's bed, with Charlotte on it, tossing and turning. He flang his sheets aside and went over to her bed.
He saw her at her weakest point, she's crying like a helpless baby. He sat on the edge of her bed and shook her gently.
"Charlotte, wake up. Charlotte!"
That didn't help, she's still crying and whimpering.
'She's probably having a nightmare.' Ray thought to himself as he remembered when he was little, what his mother used to do with him when he had a nightmare.
He bent down and steadied her face, there are tears all over her face. He just starred at her, suddenly realizing how pretty she is.
"Charlotte, wake up, it's just a dream, wake up from it. Once you wake up, you'll find the world a better place and it'll be peaceful all over."
He continued on, trying to remember what his mother used to say. Until she quieted down and stopped moving around. He stopped as well, and just starred at her. Minutes later, her red eyes flashed open and was greeted by a pair of golden eyes. She blinked twice first then suddenly sat up and moved away from him immediately.
"Wow, it's okay. It's just me." Ray put up his hands and looked at her relaxing down. Then her eyes narrowed.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be sleeping, your bed is over there!" She said pointing towards his bed. He fixed his hair and smiled at her.
"Did you have a nightmare?"
Charlotte dropped her hand and looked away, "none of your business."
"Do you want to talk about it?" He asked.
She looked at him, and they just sat there and looked at each other, before Charlotte shook her head and smiled at him.
'She's...'
"You are... smiling." He said, unbelievably.
"What? Can't I smile?" She asked defensively. He shook his head.
"Nevermind, go back to sleep. It was just a nightmare, nothing I can't handle." She said confidently while crawling back under her sheets again and turned around pretending to be asleep.
Ray looked at her form then stood up and went back to his bed on the other side and turned off the lights.
"Good night Charlotte." He murmured before closing his eyes. Charlotte opened her eyes after a minute and there were fears in them.
[Next Morning]
Ray stretched as he walked into the garden, Charlotte was already gone when he got up. He walked a bit further and found Charlotte eating by herself, but with two people's breakfast. He stopped stretching and walked over to her.
"Good morning." Charlotte turned to look at him and nodded towards the other side of the table. He looked and saw breakfast, he smiled knowing that she must have ordered them for him.
"Thanks."
She just nodded and went back to starring at the fountain. He sat down and began to eat, they just sat in silent, enjoying each other's company and just ate.
"So... are you okay now?"
"What do you mean?" Charlotte asked, turning around to face him.
"Last night, the nightmare."
Charlotte shrugged and leaned back onto her chair, "it's nothing, don't worry about it."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah." She stopped for a moment to look at the birds before fixing her eyes on him, "What do think the others are doing right now?"
Ray followed her, he leaned back as well and looked at her. "You really do care for your friends huh?"
"Yeah... we grew up together, got our beyblades together, joined the 'spot light' business together. We stick together through everything, we are like sisters."
"Wow, that's amazing." Ray said.
"Yeah. You haven't answered my question yet."
"Um... Kai might be cold and quiet, but he won't do anything to Cecilia, the worst is to mock her sometimes or say something to her that is mean. So... Cecilia will be okay. Max and Amara will get along just fine, Amara's personality is somewhat like Tyson, and Max and Tyson are best friends, so they'll get along. About Naomi and Tyson..." he started laughing softly, "he'll probably annoy Naomi to death, and then Naomi will probably give him a black eye. And that's about it."
Charlotte looked down at her cup, still missing her friends. They've been together all their lives, and now they couldn't even contact each other. Ray looked at the top of her head, feeling bad for her.
"There's a Beyblade Festival in town today, do you want to go and see it?" He asked.
Charlotte looked up immdiately with stars in her eyes, "really?"
"Positive!"
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
She then dragged Ray out of his seat and the both of them ran towards the door.
'Who ever said that she's mean?' Ray thought as he was being pulled outside the door.
[Night- Hotel]
It has been a tiring day for the both of them, running around town looking at different things. The two of them all wanted to get some sleep, but seems like Charlotte's dreams have a different plan for her.
Charlotte shook her head and reached out her hands to the darkness, looking for someone who could save her. But... no one came, she could feel tears spilling out of her eyes and flowing down her cheeks.
She gasped for air and suddenly sat up on her bed, gasping for air and tears are still floating down her cheek. Her whole body shook from the dream.
"Are you okay?" Ray turned on the lights and went over to her.
She turned her head and looked at him, this time, Ray saw the clear fear in her eyes. He frowned and sat down, and before he could stop himself he brushed a few strands of hair out of her face. Surprisingly, she didn't slap him or anything like that, she just continued to stare at him as more tears flew down her cheeks.
The next thing Ray knew, Charlotte flew herself in his arms and just hung onto him and cried. He blinked for a second before putting an arm around her slowly and patted her back while she cried.
Charlotte felt safe in his arms, the first time she's ever felt safe in anyone's arms. She doesn't care if he's a boy or that they barely knew each other, she felt like crying her whole heart out in his arms.
Outside, thunder storm is blasting its way around town and rain knocked on the windows loudly, but that didn't disturb the two people sitting inside. They just sat there, quietly.
After a while, Charlotte slowly pulled away as her breaths became more steady and she wiped some tears off of her face. Ray looked down at the girl worriedly, feeling that she's so vulnerable right now that she could easily break.
Charlotte looked up at Ray and sighed, "thanks."
"No problem."
They were quiet again, before Charlotte made the big move.
"Do you want to know what happened?"
She asked unsurely, but he nodded right away. Charlotte took a few breaths in, ready to reveal something that not even Cecilia, Amara and Naomi knew.
"I came from a very rich family, actually all four of us did. So, I was engaged to a guy before, he was 8 years older than me, and we were friends, although I never really liked him... but later on, as we spent more time together, I found myself beginning to fall in love with him. On my 10th birthday, I came home from school and everything was the same. But, when it was night it was all different.
"I went to sleep around 12:30am, and fell asleep soon. About 2 hours later, I woke up feeling extremely hot. So, I went down stairs to check the air conditioner, and that's when I saw my parents lying on the living room ground... dead. And I saw fire everywhere, the first thing that came to my mind was my... ex-fiance. I went to his room and saw him in there with another girl and they were talking about how they set the whole house on fire and killed my family. They then saw me at the door and made a move to kill me, but I was faster and I got away, I witnessed my house fell and my parents' deaths. Then... I became what you would call 'mean', because I don't want anyone coming close to me."
She said the last few sentences slowly as if tasting the words, and Ray looked at her unbelievably. Who knew that a girl with only 14 years of age would experience something so painful.
He reached out and placed a hand on her arm and the other one on her cheek tilting her face up to meet his.
"I'm so sorry you had to go through all that, but I promise you that you'll never experience anything like that again. And please, try to let some people come close to you, because not everyone in the world is like your ex- fiance. Love is like leaping, if you are willing to, you will take that leap to the other dimension."
He said softly, almost whispering it to her. She looked into his eyes, knowing what he really meant to say. She sighed and leaned into his hand that is resting on her cheek.
"I know that... but, I just don't know if I'm ready to leap again." She said looking at him sadly.
He didn't know what to say to that, so he just leaned down and their lips joined together. His first kiss and hers as well, she relaxed under his touch and leaned into him.
[Next Morning]
"Ray, wake up. Open your eyes, Ray..." A voice whispered beside his ears, Ray frowned and turned a bit, wanting to close off the voice, but it didn't go away. Ray sighed and opened his eyes and starred into a pair of red ones smiling down at him.
He focused his eyes and saw Charlotte smiling at him.
"You're finally up!" She said while laughing.
"Yeah well, no one can sleep when someone that is so annoying is right beside you." He joked and laughed along with her.
She pretended to be surprised and the next thing you know, she got up on his bed and sat on his stomach with her red eyes sparkling.
"Whatever! Get up already, we have to climb the mountain today!" She said pointing outside the windows where they get a perfect veiw of Crystal Mountain. Ray sank down on bed even more and looked at her.
"Do you have to remind me?"
Charlotte only smiled at that and nodded.
"You know... you have a nice smile, you should smile more often." He said looking at her smile.
"I know, Cecilia told me that before." She said proudly. Then she remembered something and leaned down towards him.
"Get up will ya? I'm going down stairs to order breakfast, meet me in the garden again. And... Ray, please be patient, I'm trying to leap... again." She said as she pecked him on the cheek then climbed off him and left the room.
He starred at the closed door, smiling to himself and brought a hand up to where she pecked him.
'I'll wait for you always.'
TBC.....
Okay, people, that's the end of the Ray/Charlotte section, I'll be moving onto Kai and Cecilia's section next. Rememeber, all these sections take places at the same time, I'm just telling them one after one. Thanks for reading and please R&R.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
People, I'm currently posting this chapter up using my friend's computer, because my computer broke down on me. Just to give you a heads up, I'll probably update like... I don't know, 2 weeks to 1 month later under the worst circumstances. But, I'll try to get my computer fixed as soon as possible, so that you won't wait that long. Gomen, thanks for understanding. Arigatou.
Spring Fantasy
"..." = talking '...' = thinking
[Night- Hotel Room]
Ray's golden eyes snapped open when he heard a whimpering sound, he opened his eyes in the darkness, lay quietly, waiting for the next sound. Soon enough, the next sound came, it was more like a moan than a whimper.
It sounds so close to him, he frowned, then suddenly remembered that he's sharing a room with Charlotte. He sat up immediately and turned on the lights.
Besides his bed, there stood Charlotte's bed, with Charlotte on it, tossing and turning. He flang his sheets aside and went over to her bed.
He saw her at her weakest point, she's crying like a helpless baby. He sat on the edge of her bed and shook her gently.
"Charlotte, wake up. Charlotte!"
That didn't help, she's still crying and whimpering.
'She's probably having a nightmare.' Ray thought to himself as he remembered when he was little, what his mother used to do with him when he had a nightmare.
He bent down and steadied her face, there are tears all over her face. He just starred at her, suddenly realizing how pretty she is.
"Charlotte, wake up, it's just a dream, wake up from it. Once you wake up, you'll find the world a better place and it'll be peaceful all over."
He continued on, trying to remember what his mother used to say. Until she quieted down and stopped moving around. He stopped as well, and just starred at her. Minutes later, her red eyes flashed open and was greeted by a pair of golden eyes. She blinked twice first then suddenly sat up and moved away from him immediately.
"Wow, it's okay. It's just me." Ray put up his hands and looked at her relaxing down. Then her eyes narrowed.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be sleeping, your bed is over there!" She said pointing towards his bed. He fixed his hair and smiled at her.
"Did you have a nightmare?"
Charlotte dropped her hand and looked away, "none of your business."
"Do you want to talk about it?" He asked.
She looked at him, and they just sat there and looked at each other, before Charlotte shook her head and smiled at him.
'She's...'
"You are... smiling." He said, unbelievably.
"What? Can't I smile?" She asked defensively. He shook his head.
"Nevermind, go back to sleep. It was just a nightmare, nothing I can't handle." She said confidently while crawling back under her sheets again and turned around pretending to be asleep.
Ray looked at her form then stood up and went back to his bed on the other side and turned off the lights.
"Good night Charlotte." He murmured before closing his eyes. Charlotte opened her eyes after a minute and there were fears in them.
[Next Morning]
Ray stretched as he walked into the garden, Charlotte was already gone when he got up. He walked a bit further and found Charlotte eating by herself, but with two people's breakfast. He stopped stretching and walked over to her.
"Good morning." Charlotte turned to look at him and nodded towards the other side of the table. He looked and saw breakfast, he smiled knowing that she must have ordered them for him.
"Thanks."
She just nodded and went back to starring at the fountain. He sat down and began to eat, they just sat in silent, enjoying each other's company and just ate.
"So... are you okay now?"
"What do you mean?" Charlotte asked, turning around to face him.
"Last night, the nightmare."
Charlotte shrugged and leaned back onto her chair, "it's nothing, don't worry about it."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah." She stopped for a moment to look at the birds before fixing her eyes on him, "What do think the others are doing right now?"
Ray followed her, he leaned back as well and looked at her. "You really do care for your friends huh?"
"Yeah... we grew up together, got our beyblades together, joined the 'spot light' business together. We stick together through everything, we are like sisters."
"Wow, that's amazing." Ray said.
"Yeah. You haven't answered my question yet."
"Um... Kai might be cold and quiet, but he won't do anything to Cecilia, the worst is to mock her sometimes or say something to her that is mean. So... Cecilia will be okay. Max and Amara will get along just fine, Amara's personality is somewhat like Tyson, and Max and Tyson are best friends, so they'll get along. About Naomi and Tyson..." he started laughing softly, "he'll probably annoy Naomi to death, and then Naomi will probably give him a black eye. And that's about it."
Charlotte looked down at her cup, still missing her friends. They've been together all their lives, and now they couldn't even contact each other. Ray looked at the top of her head, feeling bad for her.
"There's a Beyblade Festival in town today, do you want to go and see it?" He asked.
Charlotte looked up immdiately with stars in her eyes, "really?"
"Positive!"
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
She then dragged Ray out of his seat and the both of them ran towards the door.
'Who ever said that she's mean?' Ray thought as he was being pulled outside the door.
[Night- Hotel]
It has been a tiring day for the both of them, running around town looking at different things. The two of them all wanted to get some sleep, but seems like Charlotte's dreams have a different plan for her.
Charlotte shook her head and reached out her hands to the darkness, looking for someone who could save her. But... no one came, she could feel tears spilling out of her eyes and flowing down her cheeks.
She gasped for air and suddenly sat up on her bed, gasping for air and tears are still floating down her cheek. Her whole body shook from the dream.
"Are you okay?" Ray turned on the lights and went over to her.
She turned her head and looked at him, this time, Ray saw the clear fear in her eyes. He frowned and sat down, and before he could stop himself he brushed a few strands of hair out of her face. Surprisingly, she didn't slap him or anything like that, she just continued to stare at him as more tears flew down her cheeks.
The next thing Ray knew, Charlotte flew herself in his arms and just hung onto him and cried. He blinked for a second before putting an arm around her slowly and patted her back while she cried.
Charlotte felt safe in his arms, the first time she's ever felt safe in anyone's arms. She doesn't care if he's a boy or that they barely knew each other, she felt like crying her whole heart out in his arms.
Outside, thunder storm is blasting its way around town and rain knocked on the windows loudly, but that didn't disturb the two people sitting inside. They just sat there, quietly.
After a while, Charlotte slowly pulled away as her breaths became more steady and she wiped some tears off of her face. Ray looked down at the girl worriedly, feeling that she's so vulnerable right now that she could easily break.
Charlotte looked up at Ray and sighed, "thanks."
"No problem."
They were quiet again, before Charlotte made the big move.
"Do you want to know what happened?"
She asked unsurely, but he nodded right away. Charlotte took a few breaths in, ready to reveal something that not even Cecilia, Amara and Naomi knew.
"I came from a very rich family, actually all four of us did. So, I was engaged to a guy before, he was 8 years older than me, and we were friends, although I never really liked him... but later on, as we spent more time together, I found myself beginning to fall in love with him. On my 10th birthday, I came home from school and everything was the same. But, when it was night it was all different.
"I went to sleep around 12:30am, and fell asleep soon. About 2 hours later, I woke up feeling extremely hot. So, I went down stairs to check the air conditioner, and that's when I saw my parents lying on the living room ground... dead. And I saw fire everywhere, the first thing that came to my mind was my... ex-fiance. I went to his room and saw him in there with another girl and they were talking about how they set the whole house on fire and killed my family. They then saw me at the door and made a move to kill me, but I was faster and I got away, I witnessed my house fell and my parents' deaths. Then... I became what you would call 'mean', because I don't want anyone coming close to me."
She said the last few sentences slowly as if tasting the words, and Ray looked at her unbelievably. Who knew that a girl with only 14 years of age would experience something so painful.
He reached out and placed a hand on her arm and the other one on her cheek tilting her face up to meet his.
"I'm so sorry you had to go through all that, but I promise you that you'll never experience anything like that again. And please, try to let some people come close to you, because not everyone in the world is like your ex- fiance. Love is like leaping, if you are willing to, you will take that leap to the other dimension."
He said softly, almost whispering it to her. She looked into his eyes, knowing what he really meant to say. She sighed and leaned into his hand that is resting on her cheek.
"I know that... but, I just don't know if I'm ready to leap again." She said looking at him sadly.
He didn't know what to say to that, so he just leaned down and their lips joined together. His first kiss and hers as well, she relaxed under his touch and leaned into him.
[Next Morning]
"Ray, wake up. Open your eyes, Ray..." A voice whispered beside his ears, Ray frowned and turned a bit, wanting to close off the voice, but it didn't go away. Ray sighed and opened his eyes and starred into a pair of red ones smiling down at him.
He focused his eyes and saw Charlotte smiling at him.
"You're finally up!" She said while laughing.
"Yeah well, no one can sleep when someone that is so annoying is right beside you." He joked and laughed along with her.
She pretended to be surprised and the next thing you know, she got up on his bed and sat on his stomach with her red eyes sparkling.
"Whatever! Get up already, we have to climb the mountain today!" She said pointing outside the windows where they get a perfect veiw of Crystal Mountain. Ray sank down on bed even more and looked at her.
"Do you have to remind me?"
Charlotte only smiled at that and nodded.
"You know... you have a nice smile, you should smile more often." He said looking at her smile.
"I know, Cecilia told me that before." She said proudly. Then she remembered something and leaned down towards him.
"Get up will ya? I'm going down stairs to order breakfast, meet me in the garden again. And... Ray, please be patient, I'm trying to leap... again." She said as she pecked him on the cheek then climbed off him and left the room.
He starred at the closed door, smiling to himself and brought a hand up to where she pecked him.
'I'll wait for you always.'
TBC.....
Okay, people, that's the end of the Ray/Charlotte section, I'll be moving onto Kai and Cecilia's section next. Rememeber, all these sections take places at the same time, I'm just telling them one after one. Thanks for reading and please R&R.